SOWK 540 Human Behavior

This course presents theories of human development and functioning across the life span, including systems, ecological, and person-in-environment. This course also discusses models and frameworks by Piaget, Erikson, and Kohlberg, and their critics; and spiritual development. Students gain knowledge of how human behavior in the social environment informs engagement, assessment, and intervention in social work practice, and articulate the influences of institutional racism and systemic oppression.